AdSense Arbitrage and Leveraging Experiment: Niche Ideas

As promised, we're continuing the new AdSense arbitrage experiment, this time following the techniques described in AdSense Arbitrage and Leveraging. My earnings from this blog are usually lower on Fridays than on any other day of the week, so let's see if we can stir up some excitement

Niche Ideas

The first part of the technique is to generate ideas of niches to explore. Right now all we're looking for are potentially profitable niches, niches we think might lend themselves to arbitrage. Once we have a list of niches we'll do some analysis and figure out which ones we should pursue further and which we can immediately abandon.

There are lots of ways to build niche lists. Some are described in my free Profitable Niche Discovery email course. The method that Michael Plante recommends in his book is to subscribe to the NicheADay service, which is a free service from the Keyword Avalanche folks (though they don't advertise it as such). Every day one new niche idea lands in your mailbox, along with the occasional keyword-related product recommendation.

Here's an example of the email you get from NicheADay:

As promised, each and every day, like clockwork, you
will get a simple email like this one, exposing an
already tested profitable market that you can build a
niche site around.

Todays NicheADay niche is: surveillance

Estimated Overture Monthly traffic: 95956 	

High PPC Bid Price: $3.00

I have also attached a zip file of the top 1,000
keywords from Keyword Discovery, a database that
contains 32 billion keywords.

The ZIP file with the top 1000 keywords from Keyword Discovery is a fairly recent addition to the service. Inside the ZIP file is an Excel spreadsheet with related keywords, sorted by search count. Here's the top 5 from the “surveillance” list that was sent to me yesterday:

surveillance	3757691
video surveillance	709067
surveillance equipment	673853
surveillance camera	457963
surveillance cameras	232984

I haven't looked into it too closely to see what the search count represents exactly, that may be a yearly search count as opposed to the monthly search count shown in the email for the master term.

Here are some of the niche ideas that were sent out recently:

• surveillance
• software
• cruises
• wholesale
• vitamin supplements
• probate
• silver
• retirement

As you can see, they vary a lot.

Michael points out that this is just one way to find new niches to explore, and that there are many other ways to come up with interesting niche ideas — such as looking at the junk mail that comes to your door. (Don't bother with the junk email, though, stick to looking at physical junk mail.) He likes the service because it highlights niches that he would never have considered before. I agree, it's an easy way to get some ideas.

Once you've made a list of potential niches, it's time to start analyzing them for suitability.

But that will have to wait until next time.

By the way, even if AdSense arbitrage doesn't interest you, a service like NicheADay might be useful just to get you thinking about new niches for your content…

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Eric Giguere is the author of Uncommon AdSense and the award-nominated blog Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense.

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